This is a collection of my writing and correspondence with a few bits of poetry and random thoughts mixed in. I started this blog after learning that some of my letters had an uplifting quality.
In the pages of this blog you will find my real life trials and tribulations, the nature of what I think is truth, and the dust and grit of my real life.

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Out with the Ice Girl

21st October
2012

Dear Cassi,

There was a time in my life where this
month was one of the happiest of my year. That was when I was young. It was
back in the time when I could play among the ghosts and ghouls of our
imagination. As a young boy I would imagine the other children as zombies and
the teachers vampires on Halloween and play out an adventurer in my head.

Today I did my best to capture this feeling
by going to a Halloween attraction of which is common in California. This is
something that in a loose sense I would call a date as I was accompanied by a
woman who I would at very least call attractive. I fail to see the fuss but you
know how cold a man I can be in this regard.

It was my decision to take this girl to Dark
Harbor at the Queen Mary as I have never been and found that she lived not far
from the event. I know very little about the old cruise ship, but I thought at
very least this would be fun.

A damp spirit was placed on the evening
early on as she would not let me collect her at her apartment but decided to meet
me at the event. This I took to be a sign of distrust and led me to believe
that she has had more than a few jerks in her life. To further this she is somewhat
younger than I and so less sure in her wants and less clear in her movements.
In other words she was cold as a pillar of ice.

I had the best tickets one could buy for
this event and so they cost me, but we would spend no time in lines. This was
thankful as she kept me waiting for twenty minutes past event open. Standing
there I had to do some thinking about this whole thing and thinking is never
good when it come to social events. What was I doing hanging out with this girl
anyway? She lives a good distance from my home and long distance is something
to handle.

As I said, when she finally arrived she was
a pillar of ice. We went through the mazes in the dark and I tried to keep hold
of her wrist so as not to lose track of her. To this she took little notice as
we strolled along in the company of various remnants of the dead.

I’ll admit that other than for the small
size the Dark Harbor was well done. We did no taking of the food as my ‘date’
was rather apprehensive I think of their price. This was a night full of awkwardness and long
pregnant pauses but in the overall it was fun.

We finished early as we had no desire for
repose and my tickets had taken us through the events rather quickly. I have to
say some unfinished feeling as we walked past the gates and to the parking
structure. I learned then that she had been dropped off and that she expected
me to drive her home.

On the way to her home she talked about her
life and her city. Long Beach isn’t much in comparison with LA but there is
more sea life and the associations. She told me she was a vegetarian but could
eat fish. I dropped her off at her apartment and watched her step through the
door feeling as if the night would have been better if it was a larger group. I
think this letter is kind of boring but then so was my date.